David Hewson Quotes

I love writing different things.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to start conversations that are otherwise difficult to begin.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.

I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?

Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have liked to do. I'd always wanted to write a book - not a small undertaking. I never felt I had the time or creative energy to spare in order to write one as well as I wanted.

I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am.

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

I've been writing since I was really young.

Writing is my No. 1 passion.

A writer is what I am.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.